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Truth is an Inside Job
The other day I mentioned that meditation is a fantastic way of detaching from the opinions (often called truths) of those around us: family, church, work, media, health care, and peers. At a family reunion on the weekend, I saw … Continue reading
In Praise of Losing Your Head
In designing-your-ideal-life circles, coaches love to ask this: What do you love that makes you lose complete track of time? Maybe you lose track of time brushing your teeth. I don’t know. But having wasted great chunks of my life … Continue reading
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Why Meditate? Got a Grudge?
I had a grudge going this week. Full-out, personal, justified, thorny, supported by anyone to whom i presented my case, consuming, blood-pressure-raising, unattractive yet perversely seductive, impossible to let go, and exhausting. That’s one truth. Here’s another. I know that … Continue reading
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Everything I Need to Know I Learn from Theatre
We’re in the middle of rehearsals for a play called “Talking With…” I wish you could be here with us, because the learning is fantastic. Here are today’s “lessons to self”. (One of the beautiful things about theatre is that … Continue reading
Who Are You?
I was at a funeral on the weekend. A very charming, intelligent friend of my lovely man took off the tight shoe sometime last week after a full 82 years. Here’s what whacked me: His body was there. It’s been … Continue reading
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Tagged kristin shepherd, life humor, life purpose, love, meditation, Yoga
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Why Meditate? To Go to the Well
I wake up with a circus in my head. Forgot to call the sound guy yesterday (theatre), have to start practicing with the snake (theatre), lots to do today including a conversation I’d rather not have (theatre), worried about one … Continue reading
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Two Eyes
We popped my lovely man’s eye in this morning. Jesus Murphy. To be accurate, he had his bionic eye (orbital implant) sewn in some weeks ago. That part (we call the whole thing Seymour, now) is a small, maroon, slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer humor, enucleation, kristin shepherd, mind-body health, ocular melanoma
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Eyes Are The Window to the Blah, Blah, Blah
My Lovely Man’s just had his right eye removed, which makes him my Lovely One-Eyed Man (my LOEM). The eye was replaced with a wee bowling ball, wrapped in human sclera and protected by a plastic cap that will be … Continue reading
New Thwack, Same Love
So my lovely man has this malignant tumour in his eye, and after waiting long enough that we could have grown a very slow vegetable garden, we’re leaving for Toronto this morning so that he can have his eye removed. … Continue reading